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59 girls lived a nightmare: two boys at their school used AI to create hundreds of highly realistic, sexualized fakes of them. Millions of schoolgirls face this kind of abuse. Many contemplate suicide, while tech giants like Elon Musk profit from the AI weapons that power this war against girls. We can't let them get away with it! Join the call to ban abusive deepfakes that devastate real people. Millions of teenagers every year wake up to discover highly realistic, sexualized videos and images of them circulating online. They’re fake. But they leave real scars. Many millions of abusive deepfakes are generated every year. User friendly AI tools, like Elon Musk’s Grok, let predators violate anyone in seconds. So has Elon put a stop to it? No, he’s made deepfake tools more profitable by putting them behind a paywall. The toll is devastating: one study showed that 51% of deepfake victims have contemplated suicide, while countless young girls suffer feelings of violation, powerlessness, and shame in silence. They believe it’s just the price of being online. It doesn’t have to be that way. Musk has billions and armies of trolls, but we have people power and years of experience taking on tech giants. Avaaz is teaming up with fierce survivors and digital detectives to gather evidence, expose Grok, and take Musk to court to shut these abusive tools down for good. Sign now to stand up to Musk and protect women and girls:

59 girls lived a nightmare: two boys at their school used AI to create hundreds of highly realistic, sexualized fakes of them. Millions of schoolgirls face this kind of abuse. Many contemplate suicide, while tech giants like Elon Musk profit from the AI weapons that power this war against girls. We can't let them get away with it! Join the call to ban abusive deepfakes that devastate real people. SIGN TO SHUT IT DOWN Dear Avaaz members, Millions of teenagers every year wake up to discover highly realistic, sexualized videos and images of them circulating online. They’re fake. But they leave real scars. Many millions of abusive deepfakes are generated every year. User friendly AI tools, like Elon Musk’s Grok, let predators violate anyone in seconds. So has Elon put a stop to it? No, he’s made deepfake tools more profitable by putting them behind a paywall. The toll is devastating: one study showed that 51% of deepfake victims have contemplated suicide, while countless young girls suffer feelings of violation, powerlessness, and shame in silence. They believe it’s just the price of being online. It doesn’t have to be that way. Musk has billions and armies of trolls, but we have people power and years of experience taking on tech giants. Avaaz is teaming up with fierce survivors and digital detectives to gather evidence, expose Grok, and take Musk to court to shut these abusive tools down for good. Sign now to stand up to Musk and protect women and girls: STOP THE DEEPFAKE EPIDEMIC! Let’s be clear: this is a global war on women and girls. Studies in countries as diverse as Australia, Cambodia, Spain, Kenya, the UK, and the US all point to a growing epidemic of digital abuse with deepfakes. And one study found that 98% of deepfakes are sexualized and 99% target women and girls. We cannot wish our way out of this if tech giants keep building bigger and better weapons of sexualized abuse. We have to cut off the supply. We have a chance to stop them by supporting the growing number of global lawsuits against Elon Musk and the other tech bros fueling this misogynist violence. Technology should lift humanity up, not strip us of our safety and dignity. We must demand a future where AI is built to be safe by design, protecting our lives rather than weaponizing our own faces and bodies. Sign now to demand a safe, human-centered digital future: STOP THE DEEPFAKE EPIDEMIC! We know exactly how to win this. Avaaz helped draft the pioneering EU laws designed to protect women and girls from precisely this kind of digital assault. Now, we are going to help Jess deploy them. Together, we can turn this trial into a historic turning point, the moment citizens take back control and finally hold Big Tech accountable. Let's build unstoppable global pressure and make justice win. With hope and determination, Mélanie, Sarah, Nate, Parker and the whole Avaaz team More information: What led one MP to go up against Elon Musk? (BBC) New claimants seek to sue Elon Musk’s xAI after Labour MP’s test case (The Guardian) Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children (CCDH) Who answers for AI? First UK claim filed against AI company over Grok deepfakes (Slaughter and May)

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Re: URGENT: Whale hunting resumed

Update: Icelandic magnate Kristján Loftsson's ships have now killed at least 11 whales. And they are set to continue their vicious hunt all summer. Add your name and share with a friend to help us reach 3 million signatures. Avaaz will pressure the prime minister to act before more whales are killed. Sign Now Here's the email we sent earlier with more information: It’s sickening. Kristján Loftsson’s fleet has just killed three whales. The Icelandic multimillionaire resumed his sinister hunt -- and could kill up to 150 fin whales this season. Struck by explosive harpoons, whales agonise for up to two hours before they die. Let's deliver the largest petition ever calling for an end to whaling in Iceland to the Prime Minister: sign before more whales are slaughtered. It’s gruesome. They fire explosive harpoons that detonate inside whales' bodies, leaving them to agonise for up to two hours -- a hunting method experts have already deemed inhumane. But millionaire Kristján Loftsson has no intention of stopping.  And so far, he's getting away with it: we fear 147 whales could be slaughtered in the coming weeks, as Loftsson’s hunting quota is still in force. Fin whales are awe-inspiring -- capable of communicating through song, feeling love and deep emotional suffering. Sign now to help spark a massive global outcry and end Kristján Loftsson's hunt for good. The Icelandic government has delayed action for too long. Let's make our voices reach Reykjavík and Loftsson’s bloody harbours:

Update: Icelandic magnate Kristján Loftsson's ships have now killed at least 11 whales. And they are set to continue their vicious hunt all summer. Add your name and share with a friend to help us reach 3 million signatures. Avaaz will pressure the prime minister to act before more whales are killed. Sign Now Here's the email we sent earlier with more information: It’s sickening. Kristján Loftsson’s fleet has just killed three whales. The Icelandic multimillionaire resumed his sinister hunt -- and could kill up to 150 fin whales this season. Struck by explosive harpoons, whales agonise for up to two hours before they die. Let's deliver the largest petition ever calling for an end to whaling in Iceland to the Prime Minister: sign before more whales are slaughtered. SIGN NOW Dear friends, It’s gruesome. They fire explosive harpoons that detonate inside whales' bodies, leaving them to agonise for up to two hours -- a hunting method experts have already deemed inhumane. But millionaire Kristján Loftsson has no intention of stopping.  And so far, he's getting away with it: we fear 147 whales could be slaughtered in the coming weeks, as Loftsson’s hunting quota is still in force. Fin whales are awe-inspiring -- capable of communicating through song, feeling love and deep emotional suffering. Sign now to help spark a massive global outcry and end Kristján Loftsson's hunt for good. The Icelandic government has delayed action for too long. Let's make our voices reach Reykjavík and Loftsson’s bloody harbours: SIGN: STOP THE WHALE BUTCHER Scientists discovered cells in whales' brains that process complex emotions like romance and grief. These were thought to exist only in humans and great apes, but whales may have up to three times more of them than humans! Yet despite whale hunting being banned around the world, three countries – Japan, Norway and Iceland – keep hunting these majestic creatures.  In Iceland, progress is painfully slow. The government has pledged to end commercial whaling, yet one of the richest men in the country keeps hunting them. After a two-year pause, Kristján Loftsson's fleet is back at sea and could kill up to 150 whales this season. Time is running out. Join the global movement to urge Iceland's prime minister to suspend whaling before more whales are killed. SIGN: STOP THE WHALE BUTCHER This case tells a wider story about the future we want: a future where nature and people are treated fairly and life is allowed to flourish.   With relentless hope and determination, Julian, Marco, Lilian, Harriet, Marie and the whole team at Avaaz More information: Iceland kills first whales since 2023, resuming whaling (Euronews) Two fin whales dead as Iceland's controversial hunt returns (Oceanographic) First Fin Whales Caught After Two-Year Hiatus (Iceland Review) Can the EU End Iceland’s Whaling Corruption? (Ocean Rising)

Avaaz is a 70-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 22 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, X, or Instagram. You became a member of the Avaaz movement and started receiving these emails when you signed "Community Petitions Site" on 2016-12-07 using the email address statusgps@gmail.com. To ensure that Avaaz messages reach your inbox, please add avaaz@avaaz.org to your address book. To change your email address, language settings, or other personal information, contact us, or simply go here to unsubscribe. To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact . Avaaz Foundation ℅ Sayer Vincent LLP 110 Golden Lane London, England EC1Y 0TG Avaaz Foundation c/o Servcorp 1330 6th Avenue Suite 23A New York, NY 10019 USA

URGENT: Whale hunting resumed

It’s sickening. Kristján Loftsson’s fleet has just killed three whales. The Icelandic multimillionaire resumed his sinister hunt -- and could kill up to 150 fin whales this season. Struck by explosive harpoons, whales agonise for up to two hours before they die. Let's deliver the largest petition ever calling for an end to whaling in Iceland to the Prime Minister: sign before more whales are slaughtered. It’s gruesome. They fire explosive harpoons that detonate inside whales' bodies, leaving them to agonise for up to two hours -- a hunting method experts have already deemed inhumane. But millionaire Kristján Loftsson has no intention of stopping.  And so far, he's getting away with it: we fear 147 whales could be slaughtered in the coming weeks, as Loftsson’s hunting quota is still in force. Fin whales are awe-inspiring -- capable of communicating through song, feeling love and deep emotional suffering. Sign now to help spark a massive global outcry and end Kristján Loftsson's hunt for good. The Icelandic government has delayed action for too long. Let's make our voices reach Reykjavík and Loftsson’s bloody harbours:

It’s sickening. Kristján Loftsson’s fleet has just killed three whales. The Icelandic multimillionaire resumed his sinister hunt -- and could kill up to 150 fin whales this season. Struck by explosive harpoons, whales agonise for up to two hours before they die. Let's deliver the largest petition ever calling for an end to whaling in Iceland to the Prime Minister: sign before more whales are slaughtered. SIGN NOW Dear friends, It’s gruesome. They fire explosive harpoons that detonate inside whales' bodies, leaving them to agonise for up to two hours -- a hunting method experts have already deemed inhumane. But millionaire Kristján Loftsson has no intention of stopping.  And so far, he's getting away with it: we fear 147 whales could be slaughtered in the coming weeks, as Loftsson’s hunting quota is still in force. Fin whales are awe-inspiring -- capable of communicating through song, feeling love and deep emotional suffering. Sign now to help spark a massive global outcry and end Kristján Loftsson's hunt for good. The Icelandic government has delayed action for too long. Let's make our voices reach Reykjavík and Loftsson’s bloody harbours: SIGN: STOP THE WHALE BUTCHER Scientists discovered cells in whales' brains that process complex emotions like romance and grief. These were thought to exist only in humans and great apes, but whales may have up to three times more of them than humans! Yet despite whale hunting being banned around the world, three countries – Japan, Norway and Iceland – keep hunting these majestic creatures.  In Iceland, progress is painfully slow. The government has pledged to end commercial whaling, yet one of the richest men in the country keeps hunting them. After a two-year pause, Kristján Loftsson's fleet is back at sea and could kill up to 150 whales this season. Time is running out. Join the global movement to urge Iceland's prime minister to suspend whaling before more whales are killed. SIGN: STOP THE WHALE BUTCHER This case tells a wider story about the future we want: a future where nature and people are treated fairly and life is allowed to flourish.   With relentless hope and determination, Julian, Marco, Lilian, Harriet, Marie and the whole team at Avaaz More information: Iceland kills first whales since 2023, resuming whaling (Euronews) Two fin whales dead as Iceland's controversial hunt returns (Oceanographic) First Fin Whales Caught After Two-Year Hiatus (Iceland Review) Can the EU End Iceland’s Whaling Corruption? (Ocean Rising)

Avaaz is a 70-million-person global campaign network that works to ensure that the views and values of the world's people shape global decision-making. ("Avaaz" means "voice" or "song" in many languages.) Avaaz members live in every nation of the world; our team is spread across 18 countries on 6 continents and operates in 22 languages. Learn about some of Avaaz's biggest campaigns here, or follow us on Facebook, X, or Instagram. You became a member of the Avaaz movement and started receiving these emails when you signed "Community Petitions Site" on 2016-12-07 using the email address statusgps@gmail.com. To ensure that Avaaz messages reach your inbox, please add avaaz@avaaz.org to your address book. To change your email address, language settings, or other personal information, contact us, or simply go here to unsubscribe. To contact Avaaz, please do not reply to this email. Instead, write to us at www.avaaz.org/en/contact . Avaaz Foundation ℅ Sayer Vincent LLP 110 Golden Lane London, England EC1Y 0TG Avaaz Foundation c/o Servcorp 1330 6th Avenue Suite 23A New York, NY 10019 USA